Transcriber's Note
Large tables have been refactored for display on smaller screens.
Illustrations have been moved to paragraph breaks and/or placed next to the text which they illustrate, and may not match the locations give in the List of Illustrations.
The sidenote beginning "Removing any goods off" on p. 444 was printed as vertical text.
On p. xxii, the figures "2,721,73" and "54,00" were each printed without the final digit.
The following apparent errors have been corrected:
- p. vii "City Mission," changed to "City Mission"
- p. viii "Houses of Assignation" changed to "Houses of Assignation 258"
- p. xx "clasess" changed to "classes"
- p. xxxix "But ‘the demand" changed to "“But ‘the demand"
- p. 6 "20 years of age" changed to "20 years of age."
- p. 6 "iron manufacturers" changed to "iron manufacturers,"
- p. 9 "all persone" changed to "all persons"
- p. 10 "Army, Navy." changed to "Army, Navy,"
- p. 11 "printing bookbinding" changed to "printing, bookbinding"
- p. 17 "viii. Breaking (stones)" changed to "ix. Breaking (stones)"
- p. 17 "ix. Scouring" changed to "x. Scouring"
- p. 20 "Commisioners" changed to "Commissioners"
- p. 41 "unto me!’" changed to "unto me!”"
- p. 48 "occuption" changed to "occupation"
- p. 48 (note) "Antiquities of Greece" changed to "Antiquities of Greece."
- p. 53 "recordered" changed to "recorded"
- p. 54 "characters to lose[39]" changed to "characters to lose[39]."
- p. 72 "difficul course" changed to "difficult course"
- p. 74 "expected. in any general" changed to "expected, in any general"
- p. 76 "comnities" changed to "communities"
- p. 93 "regions, espepecially" changed to "regions, especially"
- p. 111 (note) "Stocqueler’s Pilgrimage" changed to "Stocqueler’s Pilgrimage."
- p. 125 (note) "Hoffmeister’s Travel’s" changed to "Hoffmeister’s Travels"
- p. 135 "says Conyngham" changed to "says Cunynghame"
- p. 136 "appaparently" changed to "apparently"
- p. 136 (note) "Cunyngham’s Recollections" changed to "Cunynghame’s Recollections"
- p. 137 "cross.”" changed to "cross."
- p. 144 "the case" changed to "the ease"
- p. 146 "Enggland" changed to "England"
- p. 163 "longer period" changed to "longer period."
- p. 179 "parents or guardians or guardians" changed to "parents or guardians"
- p. 180 "frighful" changed to "frightful"
- p. 183 "heavest punishment" changed to "heaviest punishment"
- p. 196 "40 centimes;" changed to "40 centimes."
- p. 197 "week of labour," changed to "week of labour."
- p. 200 "be estalished" changed to "be established"
- p. 203 "with out expressing" changed to "without expressing"
- p. 203 "numeous" changed to "numerous"
- p. 203 "w-er at Turin" changed to "were at Turin"
- p. 203 "prostituion" changed to "prostitution"
- p. 204 "sanitary visis" changed to "sanitary visits"
- p. 204 "away from him," changed to "away from him."
- p. 208 "Ismeria." changed to "Ismeria"
- p. 210 "‘Rue Fromenteau”" changed to "“Rue Fromenteau”"
- p. 216 "possessed o" changed to "possessed of"
- p. 219 "minds o" changed to "minds of"
- p. 225 "his divison" changed to "his division"
- p. 231 "fron the ashes" changed to "from the ashes"
- p. 232 "rapped up" changed to "wrapped up"
- p. 233 "which, however" changed to "which, however,"
- p. 238 "abound there" changed to "abound there."
- p. 249 "disapointment" changed to "disappointment"
- p. 250 "nighbourhood" changed to "neighbourhood"
- p. 262 "we had supper.," changed to "we had supper,"
- p. 264 "Females" changed to "Females."
- p. 264 "9 12" changed to "9 3 12"
- p. 266 "3 P.M" changed to "3 P.M."
- p. 269 "lots of money”" changed to "lots of money’"
- p. 270 "sixteen years’ old" changed to "sixteen years old"
- p. 272 "come to me!" changed to "come to me!”"
- p. 279 "descriptious" changed to "descriptions"
- p. 280 "low neigbourhood" changed to "low neighbourhood"
- p. 281 "such a street.”" changed to "such a street."
- p. 283 "of his property" changed to "of his property"
- p. 283 "pinafores towels" changed to "pinafores, towels"
- p. 284 "the others’ cap" changed to "the other’s cap"
- p. 293 "Attic or Garret Thieves" changed to "Attic or Garret Thieves."
- p. 295 "neighbourhoood" changed to "neighbourhood"
- p. 303 "starving Some" changed to "starving. Some"
- p. 306 "to sip the hand" changed to "to slip the hand"
- p. 310 "£6 194" changed to "£6,194"
- p. 319 "It was on a Saturday" changed to "“It was on a Saturday"
- p. 329 "somes cases" changed to "some cases"
- p. 330 "seven o’clock, P M." changed to "seven o’clock, P. M."
- p. 339 "eater, or it gives" changed to "enter, or it gives"
- p. 339 "in wich drills" changed to "in which drills"
- p. 343 "police station" changed to "police station."
- p. 345 "burglareis" changed to "burglaries"
- p. 348 "bought this instrument" changed to "brought this instrument"
- p. 356 "fashionable careeer" changed to "fashionable career"
- p. 357 "in the West-end" changed to "in the West-end."
- p. 360 "thorougfares" changed to "thoroughfares"
- p. 360 "want and suffering" changed to "want and suffering."
- p. 361 "I don’t mind seeing" changed to "“I don’t mind seeing"
- p. 361 "King s Cross, and" changed to "King’s Cross, and"
- p. 364 "healthy girls. When" changed to "healthy girls When"
- p. 366 "with plunderiug" changed to "with plundering"
- p. 368 "pay, they were" changed to "pay they, were"
- p. 371 "Ionly get copper" changed to "I only get copper"
- p. 372 "jacket for 2d" changed to "jacket for 2d."
- p. 372 "old cap for ½d" changed to "old cap for ½d."
- p. 374 "low coffee-house" changed to "low coffee-houses"
- p. 375 "515l" changed to "515l."
- p. 375 "in the City" changed to "in the City."
- p. 375 "from a well known" changed to "from a well-known"
- p. 375 "2 843" changed to "2,843"
- p. 378 "shilling’s worth, Then" changed to "shilling’s worth. Then"
- p. 380 "than a-good one" changed to "than a good one"
- p. 390 "remittance, This system" changed to "remittance. This system"
- p. 390 "position in society," changed to "position in society."
- p. 395 "c. 3 and 4 (1598,)" changed to "c. 3 and 4 (1598),"
- p. 400 "350 were convicted," changed to "350 were convicted."
- p. 403 "expenses, and—’" changed to "expenses, and—”"
- p. 409 "as to character." changed to "as to character.”"
- p. 410 "about town He tells you" changed to "about town. He tells you"
- p. 418 "done it ,for" changed to "done it, for"
- p. 422 "Waldegrave" changed to "Waldegrave)"
- p. 427 "obliged to you." changed to "obliged to you.”"
- p. 428 "sitting on the sca fold" changed to "sitting on the scaffold"
- p. 428 "arm? Your’e a" changed to "arm? You’re a"
- p. 430 "clohes, first of all" changed to "clothes, first of all"
- p. 432 "desease. This man" changed to "disease. This man"
- p. 435 "small piece of soup" changed to "small piece of soap"
- p. 438 "clothes, as as if" changed to "clothes, as if"
- p. 445 "Brass Rods &c" changed to "Brass Rods &c."
- p. 445 "Lord Brougham 2" changed to "Lord Brougham 2”"
- p. 448 "machinery, which, &c. &c. &c." changed to "machinery, which, &c. &c. &c.”"
- p. 453 "Manufacturing and Sub-Mining Counti" changed to "Manufacturing and Sub-Mining Counties."
- p. 473 "There aer, on an average" changed to "There are, on an average"
- p. 477 "841 to 1850" changed to "1841 to 1850"
- p. 479 "Females is the least" changed to "Females is the least."
- p. 489 "ENGLAND & WALES" changed to "ENGLAND & WALES."
- p. 495 "Middlesex 09" changed to "Middlesex 0·9"
- p. 495 "Norfolk 07" changed to "Norfolk 0·7"
- p. 495 "Lancaster 02" changed to "Lancaster 0·2"
- p. 501 "’ ’" changed to "„ „"
Inconsistent or archaic spelling and punctuation have otherwise have been left as printed.
The following possible errors have not been changed:
- p. 1 the elimination of the truth
- p. 139 Mesco
- p. 178 Mary Wolstonecroft
- p. 180 oath that he had intercourse
- p. 185 regulations was
- p. 244 expences
- p. 366 ladened
- p. 377 pair this off
- p. 396 except in ordinary cases
- p. 413 by, a despairing
- p. 440 sell his work for him?
- p. 447 The sufferings of this minority is